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(N0 M l) GOGLEY.

HITGHING STRAP.

No. 509,652. Patented Nov. 28, 1893.

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ANDREW J. COGLEY, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTHSTO HENRY MARTIN AND GEORGE R. \VELCHANS, OF SAME PLACE.

HlTCHlNG-STRAPr SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.509,652, dated November 28, 1893.

Application filed $eptembe1- 21, 1892. $erial No. 446,467- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. OooLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing in Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Hitching-Straps, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that class of straps employedfor temporarily securing horses when stopping on the road; and theobject of the invention is to add a cheap, simple, and effectivefastening to the strap, and one which any strain on said strap willserve to tighten.

The invention consists in the construction and comb nation of thevarious parts, as hereinafter fully described, and then specificallypointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a top view of a post, showing the strap secured thereto.Fig. 2 is a face view of the buckle and snap hook united. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal vertical section of the buckle shown in Fig. 2, and Fig.4is a face view of a modified form of the buckle.

Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the details of the drawings, A indicates the strap; B, thepost to which the strap is secured, and C an ordinary snaphook securedto the end of the strap.

D represents the buckle. This buckle slides on the strap, and is formedof a plate with upturned ends 77., having loops E, therein adapted to beengaged by the snap-hook.

In the body of the plate there is an aperture F, below which there is adepressed or offset cross-bar f. The top or inner surface of thiscross-bar f is flat and the sides are rounded or beveled, as seen inFig. 3, so that the edges of the top or inner surface form acute angles,which are better fitted to take a hold in or against the strap when bentover and out from one of said angles and tension is exerted on the endof the buckle on the same side thereof. The strap A passes between thebar f and the plate of the buckle, by which connection the buckle can bemoved along the length of the strap. By reason of the construction ofthe buckle the friction between it and the strap prevents the bucklefrom sliding too freely away from the post and thus loosening the strapthereon.

In operating, the end of the strap is put around a post or otherobjectto which it is to be secured and the snap-hook engaged with the adjacentloop of the buckle, slipped up near enough to the post for that purpose,when the strap is tightened on the post by pushing the buckle toward it.Any strain on the strap-as is obviousonly serves to tighten thefastening. Turning the ends h of the buckle outward permits the same toride freely along the strap when adjusted thereon, preventing anycontact of any angles or sharp edges therewith. When the strap issecured to a post it makes a sharp bend over one of the edges of theoffset cross-bar f and the buckle is prevented from slipping back by thefriction between the strap and said edge, caused by the tension of thesnap-hook on the inner end of the buckle, whereby the edge of saidcross-bar is caused to bite into the strap as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 4, there is shown a buckle having but one loop. This buckleoperates on precisely the same principle as the buckle having two loops,but it has only one end which can be engaged by the snaphook; theadvantage in the buckle with the double loop being, that with a straphaving a snap-hook at both ends either end of said strap can be woundaround the post and the snap-hook thereon engaged with a loop in thebuckle, for, as will be readily understood, the snaphook must beconnected with the end of the buckle nearest to it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

A hitching-strap buckle or slide, comprising a curved frame having aperforation at the outer end thereof adapted to be engaged by a hook,and a depressed cross-bar provided with a flat upper portion, a roundlower portion, and an aperture at opposite sides thereof, substantiallyas shown and described.

A. J. OOGLEY.

\Vitnesses:

J AGOB HALBACH, WM. R. GERHART.

